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• Adolphe Marchand, Woumen
• van Beek-, Bemmel, Nederland († 1886)
• Albert Hooghiemstra, Bolsward
• Adolf Marchand, Klerken (Houthulst) († 1949)
• Aletta Johanna van den Brink, Voorburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Doeland, Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel († 1886)
• Albert Nijboer, Ruinen, Echten, Drenthe, Nederland († 1886)
• Aartje Bosch, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Maarten van Leeuwen, Weesperkarstpel
• Adriana Cornelia Linde van der, Dreischor

• Alida Dech (76), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van Beek- (0), Bemmel, Nederland
• Andries Vissers (66), Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje van Geerestijn (76), Leersum
• Addrianus Martinus Adrianus Verbij (0), Schiedam, Nederland
• Aaltje Versteeg (68), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bartholomeus van den Hout (2), Vlijmen
• Bartholomeus van den Hout (2), Vlijmen
• Albert Nijboer (0), Ruinen, Echten, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arthur Joseph BAERT (0), Sint-Niklaas,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• 1879 » Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas († 1950)
• 1886 » Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer († 1971)
• 1887 » Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress († 1954)
• 1889 » Beulah Bondi, American actress († 1981)
• 1889 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player († 1972)
• 1891 » Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher († 1963)
• 1891 » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic († 1969)
• 1892 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1892 » Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic († 1970)
• 1893 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author († 1975)

• 1856 » Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
• 1856 » Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
• 1882 » Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)
• 1910 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
• 1916 » Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
• 1916 » Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
• 1916 » Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
• 1918 » Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)
• 1921 » Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Jacobus
10. Petrus
11. Adrianus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Hendrika
8. Wilhelmina
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Jacoba
14. Trijntje
15. Geertruida
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
• May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
• May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
• June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
• November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

The temperature on May 3, 1886 was about 9.6 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%.